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Darknet - what is it, how to get there

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Many users are familiar with the Internet, but they could only hear about the Darknet. And this is no accident. This network has its advantages and features of work, which we will discuss in detail. It will also tell you how to enter it if you need to.

What is the Darknet, what are its principles of operation

Darknet - which in translation means dark (or you can also say hidden) network. This network fell in love with users due to its anonymity and the resources that are available within it.

And although this network operates over the Internet, special protocols and principles are used during data transfer, namely, the connection is not carried out directly, but passes through many intermediary servers and through computers of other users of this network. All this in the most significant way complicates (and often completely nullifies) the determination of the real position of a particular user. In other words, anonymity in this network will be an order of magnitude higher than using a proxy server or VPN connection.

At the moment, there are no technical methods that would allow blocking or somehow restricting access to the Darknet network.

It is used by people with different intentions. For example, in China, there is very strict censorship on the Internet on the part of the state and citizens go to the Darknet in order to discuss certain problems of the country, but at the same time anonymously and without fear of being accused of violating the law.

The Darknet also has representations of organizations banned in many countries, for example, religious ones. It also trades in everything that is often banned on the regular Internet, and in real life.

How to use the Darknet

It is not possible to enter the DarkNet network through a regular Internet browser, at least without the use of additional software, of which there are a sufficient number, including.

In the same material, we will talk about the official Internet browser, which allows you to conveniently use the darknet network and, accordingly, view the sites located there and use various services.

Tor Browser (Tor Browser) - this browser has all the necessary functions and capabilities in order to provide "surfing" on sites on the dark web, and at the same time remain completely anonymous.

It is worth talking about the sites themselves. Their functionality, design and purpose varies greatly from site to site, as, indeed, in the traditional Web. But addresses are often “chaotic” in nature, representing a set of characters that invariably ends in .onion or .i2p (if we are talking about the corresponding darknet network protocol).

If you don't know which specific sites you need to visit, you can start with the following basic list:

http://rutorc6mqdinc4cz.onion - torrent tracker
http://zqktlwi4fecvo6ri.onion - Wiki with a list of onion links
http://hss3uro2hsxfogfq.onion - search engine for darknet resources
http://answerstedhctbek.onion - feedback / questions service
http://torbox3uiot6wchz.onion - mail that works inside the darknet

If you want to search for available resources on the darknet, then with this feature, everything is not so simple. The network is anonymous and indexing of its resources is a priori undesirable.

Of course, there are search services in this network, but their work is far from being as impressive as it traditionally takes place in the classical Internet, thanks to such giants of the search industry as Yandex and Google.

The popularity of the Darknet in the world

Naturally, it makes no sense to compare the popularity of the traditional web with the dark web. After all, the latter is an add-on to the ordinary Internet, and for those who need exceptional privacy, as well as one or another content or product that is poorly represented or absent on the ordinary Internet.